Edmonton’s Cultural Capital Program:Building Connections

The Projects
The Edmonton Cultural Capital Program contains five cornerstone
projects built around the theme of creating new connections and possibilities
in all aspects of arts and culture. In addition, an equally important
project will be to create a Cultural Inventory. This will be undertaken
in partnership with the Heritage Community Foundation based in Edmonton.

Edmonton Explorations
Grant Program

Community Arts: Cultural Collaborations_Voices Less Heard

Edmonton Poetry Festival

Symposia and Speakers Series

Nightworks: Cultural Capital Celebrates New
Year’s Eve

Cultural Inventory

In addition a creative marketing and awareness campaign
will highlight the wealth of arts and culture thriving within our City.

Edmonton – the 2007 Cultural Capital
of Canada.
Building Connections to arts and culture for all Edmontonians.

THE PROJECTS: Building Connections

The Edmonton Cultural Capital Program contains five cornerstone
projects built around the theme of creating new connections and possibilities
in all aspects of arts and culture. In addition, an equally important
project will be to create a Cultural Inventory. This will be undertaken
in partnership with the Heritage Community Foundation based in Edmonton.

Community Arts Celebration

The Community Arts Celebration grew out of the projects funded through Edmonton Cultural Capitalís Community Arts grant program, Cultural Collaborations: Voices Less Heard.More...

Edmonton Explorations: a grant program for individual artists

This is a grant program intended for individual artists in all artistic
disciplines. In Edmonton we invest in artists of today to foster the
arts and cultural community of tomorrow.More...

Cultural Collaborations: Voices Less Heard

The Community Arts Grant Program, described as Cultural Collaborations: Voices
less Heard, is designed to use the arts to give expression
to voices less heard within our community.More...

Edmonton Poetry Festival

Connections occur through people engaging
with poems and the images they evoke, through the shared experience of
hearing poetry performed, and through the process of creating and refining
work. Activities will be under the direction of Edmonton’s first
Poet Laureate, Alice Major.More...

Symposia and Speakers Series

Three symposia will be produced throughout the Cultural Capital year: Word!
Symposium: talk, poetry and performance. September
21-22, 2007. Arts and Science Symposium, November 9-10, 2007. Community
Arts Symposium, March 7-8, 2008.More...

Cultural Capital Celebrates New Year’s Eve

Celebrate with us! New Years Eve Downtown featuring Nightworks on the SquareMore...

Marketing and Awareness

In addition to these projects a unique Marketing and Awareness campaign
will highlight the wealth of talent and culture that makes Edmonton worthy
of the title Cultural Capital of Canada.

The marketing and awareness campaign seeks to:

Highlight
and profile the entire arts and cultural community

Increase awareness among Edmontonians of the wealth of talent and
scope of cultural activities in the city

Increase the engagement of Edmontonians with all aspects of our arts
and cultural community beyond this Cultural Capital Year

Increase awareness of Edmonton’s cultural community both nationally
and internationally.